{"id":46750,"date":"2019-11-22T13:09:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T17:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46750"},"modified":"2020-08-12T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T17:10:07","slug":"i-guess-someone-had-to-jump-off-the-cliff-to-pioneer-some-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46750","title":{"rendered":"I guess someone had to jump off the cliff to pioneer some change"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m at the gym and in between some dumbbell presses, I look up at the television and see a headline scroll across saying \u201cTesla Truck Breaks the Internet<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 And then suddenly, this thing shows up on screen, and my knee-jerk reaction is something that looks like a cross between the Pyramid Head helmet<\/a> with wheels, and one of the numerous one-trick wedge-shaped robots from Robot Wars<\/a> that won matches solely by wedging themselves under the competition and upending them.<\/span><\/p>\n

But ultimately, my eyebrow scrunched and I mouthed \u201cwhat the fuck\u201d at what I was seeing, because it was without question the most radically designed automobile that I\u2019ve seen designed that wasn\u2019t CG from Test Track<\/a> in Disney World.<\/span><\/p>\n

Look, I get that I often fall into the category of being reluctant to accept change, and I often police myself to try and be open-minded to new and radical things that come to fruition these days.\u00a0 But seriously, Tesla\u2019s Cybertruck is pushing the boundaries of accepting change for the sake of change, or because they really think that they\u2019re making something that is going to make a difference in the long run.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, as an automobile manufacturer, I think Tesla is really cool.\u00a0 My wife wants a Tesla Model 3\/S\/X like nobody else\u2019s business, and from an environmental standpoint, it\u2019s incredible that there\u2019s a car that\u2019s 100% electric, produces zero emissions, AND doesn\u2019t look like a glorified Mario Kart<\/a>, AND gets outstanding performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the Cybertruck takes a lot of that equity and flushes it down the toilet.\u00a0 Although the internet wasted zero time at all making the comparison, it really does feel like that episode of The Simpsons<\/em> where Homer finds out he has a long-lost brother Herb, who\u2019s a successful automotive mogul, but then entrusts Homer with designing the car of the future, which results in this abomination<\/a>, and to make matters worse the production costs of it ended up bankrupting the company.\u00a0 It\u2019s like Elon Musk entrusted his long-lost American brother Jimbo Musk to create the pickup truck that Americans wanted, and they ended up with the Cybertruck.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seriously, \u201cspecial\u201d is really the only way to describe the Cybertruck, but now without one of those pregnant hesitations before saying the word special, as if to imply that what you\u2019re really trying to say is retarded, but can\u2019t because it\u2019s politically incorrect to be using the R-word<\/a> these days.\u00a0 Based on how difficult it is to delineate what side is front and which side is the back, it reminds me of the Tyco Rebound RC cars<\/a> that could go in either direction and could even flip upside down and still function.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bottom line is that I understand that someone needs to be the first, when it comes to attempting to break new ground, but I would\u2019ve thought Tesla would\u2019ve been a little more conservative when it came to trying to make waves than this.\u00a0 The Cybertruck not only doesn\u2019t even look like a truck, but instead it looks like the kind of imaginative fantasy vehicles that children draw on construction paper with crayons.\u00a0 But actually rendered and built in reality, it\u2019s a cringey abomination of a turd on wheels that really makes me wonder what Tesla\u2019s strategy is; no press is bad press, or do they actually think this actually has a chance of exploding in the market?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m at the gym and in between some dumbbell presses, I look up at the television and see a headline scroll across saying \u201cTesla Truck Breaks the Internet.\u201d\u00a0 And then suddenly, this thing shows up on screen, and my knee-jerk reaction is something that looks like a cross between the Pyramid Head helmet with wheels, … Continue reading I guess someone had to jump off the cliff to pioneer some change<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,51,190,49],"class_list":["post-46750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-branding","tag-cars","tag-white-people","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46752,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46750\/revisions\/46752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}